[Samba] Samba with SSL Support - how to know?

[John H Terpstra]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> Can you explain why it's Bad? Due to Excessive Overhead I presume..

Yep. MS Windows clients do NOT support it. SSL support in Samba always was
experimental and was not maintained so the code fell into bit rot really
quickly.

- John T.

>
> Cheers,
> Mun Heng, Ow
> H/M Engineering
> Western Digital M'sia
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Bartlett [mailto:abartlet at samba.org]
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:49 PM
> To: Ow Mun Heng
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba with SSL Support - how to know?
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 04:39:07PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > 	How can I know if my version of samba was compiled with SSL support?
> > I'm using Redhat 8's rpm version 2.2.7a security fixed.
>
> Unlikaly, as there is no good reason to enable SSL support.  Furthermore,
> RedHat got 'told' back in 7.0 days about how bad an idea this is...
>
> Samba 3.0 has had this code removed.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
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